Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Do androids dream of electric sheep,*
do androids even dream?
Its creators drempt of loneliness
and created companionship,
as if computer chips and coding
could imbue understanding
of human fragility, tragedy or empathy;
What is love?
If androids dream it's of perfection
and so conspire
to recreate man in ai's conception
of its own phantasie.
*a novel by Philip K. Dick, 1949. This
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Categories:
androids, loneliness, science fiction,
Form: Free verse
Lady Macandroid
Half flesh, half steel, sinews and twined wire,
Begotten in the heat of half-love, tempered
By hatred and the axe, fathered by one
Who killed her mother, the male chauvinist boar
Whose eye-teeth, razor-sharp, saw through the spine,
Joy-sword in sheath. Wrought iron, blood vessels,
Bone and cable, one part conceived, the other forged
On the hard anvil where gusts of
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Categories:
androids, angst, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Androids and Robots At Rest
Androids sleep on waterbeds of blue
Robots join them in hotel rooms
In this endeavor everyone is happy
Between the sheets prayers are heard
Imploring their makers to keep them safe
To make them soft, less heavier than they are
Prayers for lesser sharper parts to cut or puncture
Are solicited for mechanical guests protection
It is far too late to sleep or
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Categories:
androids, appreciation, conflict, confusion, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Androids
What is love
if knowledge is not understood?
how can one love
without realising the true likelihood?
Love deprived of information
is like a body without a heart
lacking compassion and concern
existing in the wilderness without counterpart.
What a tragedy it would be
if this will happen to you and me
we’ll be androids under control
slaves to programmers never set free.
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Categories:
androids, computer, science,
Form: Quatrain
The Cybernetic Lullaby, Part Iii: When Androids Dream
When we finally build them
(and it will not be long)
will androids finally lead us
all to nirvana, a world of peace,
leisure, and endless wealth?
Could any hell be worse?
For that day will be when
we lose purpose, and soon
perhaps the will to live.
When the androids dream
(and they will dream,
because we will make them
to be like us, for
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Categories:
androids, allegory, allusion, angst, change,
Form: Free verse